OverlordTomala

>Be careful out there.

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I have a complaint. I bought some tangerine orange zinger tea the other day and went to try it. The teabag I had was defective. I knew this because when the tea brewed, it came out in a pinkish rose color. So I made another batch, and it wasn’t orange either! After 5 more tries… I came to the conclusion that the entire box was defective.

So I went and bought another box and tried again. SAME THING.

Word to the wise. I think someone sabotaged the tangerine orange tea supply.

>DorK Diaries, Chapter 2: Goatpocalypse Now!

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Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Chapter 2 of the DorK diaries. In the last chapter there was much verbal masturbation and a slight chance of resolving a war which was then shoved underwater to die a premature death. Now that all bets are off, it’s time to take off the kiddie gloves and have some fun.

And before I create this, I need to quote the last thing that was said in The DorK Diaries 2009 thread.

DannY wrote:

P.S. And to the wicked witch of this blog, I insist you cease calling him DorK. His name is DarK! DarK, dammit! As dark as the inside of his… well, shall we just say the boy is aptly named.

I still say it was a spelling error on his behalf that lead to his name being “DarK” instead of DorK.

I’ll make you a deal, when he stops being a DorK we’ll talk it over…

>Okay, So Here’s My Thing;

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I love Uru. I probably always will. All the games and all the fan-created puzzles, playing Online, Offline, KIrc, Alcugs, OOC, IC, Until, Drizzle – I loved it all. I can’t explain it. I noticed on one of the forums there’s a thread about your favorite Uru moments. It brought to mind one of mine: when I finally got Until Uru up and running and my little avatar going nuts in the city – I was on the bridge and I had my first encounter with Another. He was a young Italian kid – we barely understood each other but we understood this much at least – how excited we both were to be there, lag and all.

Through all of it, I’ve only ever just wanted to have fun. I’m looking forward to the evolution of this thing – whatever it turns into. Now I see the Guild of Comedy is going to return – and how cool is that?!? This business of open sourcing seems like it’ll solve a lot of problems – everyone will be able to play the game the way they want. I never did understand how anyone thought they had the right to tell anyone else how they could play a game. Especially one whose mandate was as simple as “be yourself” – or “you are you.”

Until the game returns, I’ve been working (very slowly and with the handicap of too little time and zero math skills) to model my own age, with the help of the tutorials over at the Guild of Writers. Even if it’s never playable, I still want to try – because trying keeps me inside the magic I felt so long ago when I first played ‘Myst.’

And in typical Slacker fashion, I’ll leave you with this non-sequitur:

Road Sign Fail

>Valentines Day

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Valentines Day is one of my favorite holidays. I had to work today, but that didn’t prevent me with being with the person I love the most!

I had it all planned out. A box of chocolates for us to share and a fabu dinner prepared for my loved one and I.

I haven’t left the mirror until now…

But I do know that I am the best thing that has ever happened to me!

>Communities and attitudes

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I know there have been a lot of discussions about “community” in the various URU/Myst/Cyan related forums, blogs, what have you. I’m going to bring it up again, but from, I hope, a different viewpoint.

See, I have a problem with my attitude about others in the community. Let me clarify right up front, I’m not just talking URU/Myst/Cyan etc. I’m talking about 99.9% of the on line communities out there, doesn’t matter if it’s MMO related or not. What’s my attitude problem? My problem is just this, that I expect everyone else to act towards me and anyone else in the community just as they would if we were face to face.

Yep, that means manners people. Little things like respect. Simple words like please and thank you go a long way in benefiting us in our every day lives. Why not in the virtual community too? The things I read, in game or in forums, just appall me.

You should be ashamed of yourself. If you wouldn’t act like that in front of your family any other time, what makes you think it’s appropriate behavior now? Just because it’s virtual and you’re anonymous? Think again. It’s really not that difficult to find out who a virtual persona really is. Honest. What’s to say that one day you decide to go to a “con” of some kind. Can be Mysterium, a comiccon, whatever. You proudly put your on line alias on your name tag. 5 minutes later you wake up with a broken jaw and some dude standing over you. What do you think just happened? Guess you weren’t so anonymous after all. (BTW that really did occur to someone I know.)

In the interest of keeping this short and not a lecture, I’ll just ask one thing from everyone in any virtual community: If you wouldn’t say it if you were standing in front of a group of your peers or parents, don’t post it on the internet. Respect for yourself and your fellows within the larger community pays off in the long run.

Please and thank you.